Sampson3-2 at 2025 Curling Stadium Speedy Creek Shoot-out

SKIP
Ethan
Sampson

Third
Coleman
Thurston

Second
Jacob
Zeman

Lead
Marius
Kleinas

Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN) finished 3-2 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sampson lost 6-2 to Jacob Libbus (Edmonton, AB), then responded with a 6-2 win over James Ballance (Okotoks/Edmonton, AB). Sampson went on to lose 4-2 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Sampson responded with a 7-5 win over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN). Sampson won 7-3 against Jayden King (London, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Sampson earned 5.063 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Sampson move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 2.063 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 39th overall with 86.813 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sampson ranks 39th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 86.813 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	39	34	0	0.534	8-3	2-4	2-7	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	505	355	306	7.03	6.06	0.97	4.14	3.96	1.70	1.53	1.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	257	276	78	43	10-2	20-2	44-14	1.07	0.30	0.35	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	248	79	228	53	6-3	2-17	7-38	0.32	0.92	0.60	0.20

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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